This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-27848. The following is the description of the original issue:
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When a esxi host is in maintenance mode the installer is unable to query the hosts' version causing validation to fail.

time="2024-01-04T05:30:45-05:00" level=fatal msg="failed to fetch Terraform Variables: failed to fetch dependency of \"Terraform Variables\": failed to generate asset \"Platform Provisioning Check\": platform.vsphere: Internal error: vCenter is failing to retrieve config product version information for the ESXi host: "

https://github.com/openshift/installer/blob/0d56a06e02343e6603128e3f58c6c9bbc2edea3d/pkg/asset/installconfig/vsphere/validation.go#L247-L319